{"id":25840,"date":"2012-01-31T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/so-who-is-gene-simmons-supporting-for-the-gop-nomination.html"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:31:31","slug":"so-who-is-gene-simmons-supporting-for-the-gop-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/so-who-is-gene-simmons-supporting-for-the-gop-nomination.html","title":{"rendered":"So Who Is Gene Simmons Supporting for the GOP Nomination?"},"content":{"rendered":"

More importantly, who cares?<\/i><\/p>\n

I mean, jeez, why would anyone<\/i> possibly care who a particular actor or singer thinks is the bee's knees as a candidate? I suppose if they can speak eloquently and articulate their support that's useful — but usually celebrity endorsements are sort of a cookie cutter "Dude standing next to me is a cool dude, so vote Dude, dude" kind of a thing. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +David Kurtz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fun chart on the futile race for meaningless endorsements:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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More importantly, who cares? I mean, jeez, why would anyone possibly care who a particular actor or singer thinks is the bee's knees as a candidate? 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